The Angles wereGermanic invaders who came from the Danish-German border and conquered most of Roman Britannia, giving the country its later name, England (Angle land), and dividing it up into seven kingdoms. Who founded bernicia? Ida (died c. 559 and reputed founder of the Kingdom of North...
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In the times of the Roman Empire, the area called Provincia Britannia was populated by people called Britons. Britannia included England and Wales, but for the most part did not include Scotland. Hadrian's Wall, which was essentially the northern border of Britannia, was built in the current-...
For Soundings: Music, Politics and Identity: From Cool Britannia to Grime4Corbyn. Basically Clampdown five years on. For the Irish Times Women’s Podcast: Under my Thumb‘s co-editor Eli Davies and myself on the complexities of liking misogynist music. And, for the excellent Desolation Radio...
‘Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone’. And my face, therefore, is shut. Britannia Waives The Rules! I’m closing comments for this post because I’m not sure I can be responsible for what I might say in response to recent actions by the UK Government. This kind of ...
What was Scotland originally called? The Gaels gave Scotland its name from'Scoti', a racially derogatory term used by the Romans to describe the Gaelic-speaking 'pirates' who raided Britannia in the 3rd and 4th centuries. They called themselves 'Goidi l', modernised today as Gaels, and late...
The conscious branding of the country as ‘cool Britannia’ now looks a little dated, but nonetheless the underlying reality remains the same. Good restaurants flourish and fashion, music, nightlife and style are all fields in which the UK can now hold its own with the world’s best. ...
This message is to non-Kippers, but to me, that is a straightforward, honest summary of what the party is all about. Of course, the party has had its ups and downs – what party hasn’t, and after the referendum of 2016, voters gained the impression that the referendum had been won...
What if the Britannia Empire (which we are to assume was based on the old British Empire?) never lost the US War of Independence? This is what Code Geass partially explores as we see an alternate future of what would happen if that Empire never dissolved. So, we got mechs, bizarre powe...
They’re just some of the finds from Hadrian’s Wall – the 73-mile stone wall built as the northwestern boundary of the Roman Empire, sealing off Britannia (modern-day England and Wales) from Caledonia (essentially today’s Scotland). While most of us think of Pompeii and Herculaneum if ...